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Math 415/515: Combinatorics and Graph Theory

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Instructor: Dr. Stefan Forcey Textbook: Required: Introductory Combinatorics (5th edition) by Richard Brualdi, Prentice Hall.



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    Quiz 8

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  • TEST 2. Nov. 21
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  • TEST 2.
    Here is some additional review for the second exam.
    Here are the answers with some work shown. Also study quizzes and hw!.







    TEST 2 ENDS HERE.



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  • Exams
    There will be two in-class tests and a final.
    • Test 1:
    • Test 2:
    • Final Exam:

    RESOURCES:
    H. Wilf: generatingfunctionology

    A great resource is wolfram|alpha.
    Here is the ordinary generating function for the triangular numbers, n choose 2.
    Here is the exponential generating function for the triangular numbers, n choose 2.

    Of course the OEIS.
    Here is the open question of counting numbers of posets.


    CREDIT:
    The text of this page was adapted, with permission, from an original course site by J.P. Cossey.